{"id":156,"date":"2009-07-17T08:21:05","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/blog\/?p=156"},"modified":"2009-07-17T08:21:05","modified_gmt":"2009-07-17T12:21:05","slug":"local-php-programming-with-wampserver","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/local-php-programming-with-wampserver\/","title":{"rendered":"Local PHP Programming with WampServer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve studied PHP for a bit and have written a handful of pages. (If you haven&#8217;t, check out my <a href=\"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/blog\/165\/mini-php-crash-course\">mini PHP crash course<\/a>.) Now you&#8217;re getting tired of the constant <em>edit, upload, view<\/em> cycle of PHP editing using a Web server. What to do?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_179\" style=\"width: 287px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"size-full wp-image-179\" title=\"WampServer Menu\" src=\"http:\/\/gentry.co\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/05\/wamp-menu.gif\" alt=\"This powerful local server program comes equipped with PHP, MySql, and more.\" width=\"281\" height=\"289\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WampServer Menu: This powerful local server program comes equipped with PHP, MySql, and more.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Enter <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/\">WampServer<\/a>. This handy app can be installed with ease onto your computer and used as a <strong>stand-alone local PHP server <\/strong>(plus MySql and Apache). Woo-hoo! Now you don&#8217;t have to go through the old rigamarole, and can simply edit and refresh while you pound out PHP.<\/p>\n<p>When you go through the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wampserver.com\/en\/presentation.php\">easy install process<\/a>, you&#8217;ll set up a new directory for your webpage files. This is inside the WampServer directory (e.g., <strong>c:wampwww<\/strong> ). Any file you put there will show up when you open it in your browser, e.g.,\u00a0 <strong>http:\/\/localhost\/path-to-item\/mypage.php<\/strong> . Simple.<\/p>\n<p>You avoided the hassle of trying to install PHP separately, and <strong>you now have your very own, brand new, PHP-enabled local server<\/strong>. Congrats! Use your newfound programming power well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ve studied PHP for a bit and have written a handful of pages. (If you haven&#8217;t, check out my mini PHP crash course.) Now you&#8217;re getting tired of the constant edit, upload, view cycle of PHP editing using a Web server. What to do? Enter WampServer. This handy app can be installed with ease onto&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[80,81,82,83],"class_list":["post-156","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","tag-php","tag-programming","tag-servers","tag-tutorial"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=156"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/awgentry.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}